Native to the Nation: Disciplining Landscapes and Bodies in Australia

Focusing on Australia, this book examines the physical and narrative spatial practices by which people reclaim territory in the wake of postcolonial claims to land by Indigenous people and new immigration. Native to the Nation provides a multisited ethnography of two communities in Melbourne allowing us to see how bodies are managed and nations physically constructed in everyday confrontations and cultivations.

Introduction: making Indigenous place in the Australian city

The essay Introduction: making Indigenous place in the Australian city written by Emily Potter explores Indigenous cultural centre design in settler-colonial Australia. It reviews concerns, acknowledging the small number of Indigenous architects in Australia along with the complex social, historical and political context of Indigenous cultural design against non-indigenous architectural and spatial practice.